5th Form: Suggested Reading List.

The ‘Classics’

Louisa May Alcott – Little Women J.M. Barrie – Peter Pan Enid Bagnold – National Velvet Lucy M. Boston – The Children of Green Knowe series – Alice in Wonderland Susan Coolidge – What Katy Did Next series Richmal Crompton – Just William Kenneth Grahame – Wind in the Willows Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Secret Garden; The Little Princess Ted Hughes – The Iron Man Laura Ingalls Wilder – Little House on the Prairie series Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories; The Jungle Book C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables series E. Nesbit – The Railway Children; Five Children and It Mary Norton – The Borrowers series Philippa Pearce – Tom’s Midnight Garden (and others) Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons series Ian Serraillier – The Silver Sword Anna Sewell – Black Beauty Johanna Spyri – Heidi Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island Noel Streatfield – Ballet Shoes (and others) J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobbit Sylvia Waugh – The Mennyms series

Contemporary Fiction

Joan Aiken – The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (and others) David Almond – The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas Sam Angus – Soldier Dog, Hero Nina Bawden – The Peppermint Pig (and others) Benjamin, Floella – Coming to England Jeanne Birdsall – The Penderwicks Tim Binding – Sylvie and the Songman Pseudonymous Bosh – The Name of this Book is Secret, You Have to Stop This John Boyne – Noah Barleywater Runs Away, The Thirteen Things that Happened to Barnaby Brockett David Calcutt – Shadow Bringer Elen Caldecott – How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant, Operation Eiffel Tower, The Mystery of Wickworth Manor Lucy Christopher - Flyaway Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl series Susan Cooper – The Dark is Rising series Caroline Corby – Lady Jane Grey Zizou Corder – The Lionboy series; Halo Sharon Creech – The Unfinished Angel, The Great Unexpected Helen Cresswell – The Bagthorpe Saga Gillian Cross – The Demon Headmaster series; The Great Elephant Chase Kevin Crossley-Holland – The Seeing Stone series Jessica Day George – Dragonskin Slippers Emily Diamand – Flood Child Kate Di Camillo – The Tale of Despereaux Siobhan Dowd – The Eye Mystery, Bog Child Roddy Doyle – A Greyhound of a Girl Helen Dunmore – The Ingo series Deborah Ellis – The Breadwinner; Pavana’s Journey; Mud City Charlie Fletcher – Stone Heart Jasper Fforde – The Last Dragonslayer Cornelia Funke – The Thief Lord; Dragon Rider; Ink Heart series Neil Gaiman – The Graveyard Book; Coraline Lyn Gardner – Into the Woods, Out of the Woods Sally Gardner – I, Coriander – Elidor, The Owl Service Adele Geras – A Candle in the Dark Morris Gleitzman – Once; Then; Now, After Julia Golding – Den of Thieves series John Grogan – Marley: A Dog Like No Other Michelle Harrison – Thirteen Treasures; Thirteen Curses Sonya Hartnett – The Silver Donkey Anthony Horowitz – Point Blanc series Shirley Hughes – Hero on a Bicycle Erin Hunter – The Seekers series Eva Ibbotson – The Dragonfly Pool, One Dog and His Boy Elizabeth Kay – The Divide series Judith Kerr – When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit series Liz Kessler – The Tail of Emily Windsnap series Caroline Lawrence – The Thieves of Ostia series Sarah Lean – The Forever Whale Ursula Le Guin – The Wizard of Earthsea Gill Lewis – Sky Hawk, Moon Bear, White Dolphin and others Margaret Mahy – A Very Wicked Headmistress Hilary McKay – Wishing for Tomorrow (sequel to ‘A Little Princess’ by Hodgson Burnett) Saffy’s Angel, Caddy’s World, Binny for Short Kai Meyer – The Shell Magicians Michael Morpurgo – Born to Run; Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea; War Horse; Running Wild, Shadow, Sparrow, A Medal for Ler William Nicholson – The Wind Singer; Slaves of the Mastery; Fire Song Nimmo, Jenny – Charlie Bone series, The Secret Kingdom Joan O’Neill – Daisy Chain War series Kit Pearson – The Sky is Falling series K.M. Peyton – Flambards series Annabel Pitcher – My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson series (DVD available) Katherine Roberts – I am the Great Horse Katherine Rundell – Rooftoppers Lauren St. John – The White Giraffe, One Dollar Horse trilogy Lemony Snickett – Series of Unfortunate Events Rebecca Stead – Liar and Spy Paul Stewart and – Beyond the Deep Woods series Rosemary Sutcliff – Beowulf: Dragonslayer Alan Temperley – Harry and the Wrinklies Sandy Toksvig – Hitler’s Canary David Walliams – The Demon Dentist Robert Westall – Blitz Cat Cat Weatherill – Wild Magic Holly Webb – Lily series, Rose series Jeanette Winterson - Tanglewreck Diana Wynne Jones – Enchanted Glass